Emotion Quotations

Misery is a communicable disease.

All art to me is an empathetic act. Whoever's telling a story is trying to transfer emotion into someone else.

The thing about grief is that it's a roller coaster - it's up, it's down. The emotions sometimes take over.

Real laughter is spontaneous. Like water from the spring it bubbles forth a creation of mingled action and spontaneity - two magic potions in themselves - the very essence of laughter - the unrestrained emotion within us!

I would absolutely recommend against excessive positivity and optimism. Any positive emotion that you're infusing into a workplace needs to be grounded in reality. If it's not realistic, sincere, meaningful, and individualized, it won't do much good.

Obviously, in dealing with a relationship, sexuality has to be involved, and jealousy and emotions like that. And I don't know, I've always been intrigued by those emotions.

I adore art... when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear.

To me, art's highest purpose is to entertain, to enlighten, to inspire, to evoke emotion and to change an audience in some way, big or small.

How can you tell a story with one frame that, by its simplicity, manages to tell a story, a gag that evokes an emotion in you? That became my motto throughout all my life. Simplicity.

A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.

It's amazing to hear, as a voice matures and then starts to decline, what kind of emotion is still conveyed by a really good vocalist.

I am not going to speculate about the emotions that might be involved in avian infidelity.

I agree with you about the music of today. It lacks style and emotion.

I dress how I feel. I just go off emotion. I can't prepare my outfit a day before. Everything I wear is spontaneous.

I have never been in a serious relationship and never had a break-up, so I can't tug on my heartstrings that way. But whenever I experience a strong emotion in life, I definitely have to throw myself into my songwriting. It is very therapeutic.

I learned mime back when I was in college, at Ball State University, Indiana. That woke up my body from the neck down and made me realize that acting and communication - portraying a story, event, or emotion - is a full-body experience.

Music can help you through any kind of emotion. It can help you through a break-up, make you dance, or help you realize or understand something about yourself... and if I can sing a song and make someone feel those things then I will feel like I have made a difference.

Theater publicly reveals the human condition through appealing to both intellect and emotion. Architecture, whether lowly or exalted, can do the same.

The most difficult thing in any negotiation, almost, is making sure that you strip it of the emotion and deal with the facts.

The intellect is always fooled by the heart.

I begin my reign with profound emotion at the honour of accepting the Crown, aware of the responsibility it entails and with the greatest hope for the future of Spain.

To express your emotions, you have to be very loose and receptive. The unconscious will come to you if you have that gift that artists have. I only know if Im inspired by the results.

A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions.

Men are like mascara, they run at the slightest display of emotion.

Never be ashamed of what you feel. You have the right to feel any emotion that you want, and to do what makes you happy. That's my life motto.

Directing is very close to choreography; you deal with space, time, emotions, lighting, making beautiful images.

One may not regard the world as a sort of metaphysical brothel for emotions.

If I were to try and find a unifying emotion that kept me calm and focused while I was dancing or writing or solving a math problem, I think the one unifying thing about all those that keeps my interest is creativity.

The story is a machine for empathy. In contrast to logic or reason, a story is about emotion that gets staged over a sequence of dramatic moments, so you empathize with the characters without really thinking about it too much. It is a really powerful tool for imagining yourself in other people's situations.

There's such an extreme feeling to be in love, especially in quite an emotionally destructive relationship, where you're both kind of really bad for each other, but you love each other so much. Those extreme emotions, I think, can only be described with extreme imagery.

If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.

Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.

Athletics: it's a wonderful thing, it's a spell-binding thing, nothing in life has quite as much pageantry, as much emotion within a finite time frame, it's incredibly exciting.

Learn to take responsibility for emotions, and to manage energies, always working within present resources.

Man is the only creature whose emotions are entangled with his memory.

I really can't hate more than 5 or 10 years. Wouldn't it be terrible to be always burdened with those primary emotions you had at one time?

Maybe there's a chance to get back to grown-up films. Anything that uses humor and dramatic values to deal with human emotions and gets down to what people are to people.

History shows us that the songs - the myth, the experience and the emotion - live longer the less you explain.

I guess every actor has certain emotions they can access easier than others.

I found a greater identity with my own emotions in the Armenian culture as I grew older, as well as from the beginning, although I didn't know anything about it.

Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.

The biggest emotion in creation is the bridge to optimism.

In school, my biggest fear was that I couldn't produce emotion on cue.

Once you get into a feature, whether it's a sequel or an original one, you have to start all over again, and you're creating a world, creating new characters. You're also tracking emotions. You're trying to create emotion and create a character that you can fall in love with for two hours.

Even in the deepest love relationship - when lovers say 'I love you' to each other - we don't really know what we're saying, because language isn't equal to the complexity of human emotions.

I get to meet fantastic people, and I get to go through so many emotions. For me, I have a craving for that. When I'm acting, I feel great. It's not to be famous.

Non-fiction, and in particular the literary memoir, the stylised recollection of personal experience, is often as much about character and story and emotion as fiction is.

Generally speaking, I think it's a good idea to stay conscious of any kind of energy or emotion that you're generating, whether it's at the end of a work day or just in your everyday life.

Different fragrances promote different emotions, and I find that fragrance gets me in the frame of mind for that person.

A woman will allow herself to be clouded by her emotions. Her reasonable thought becomes completely unreasonable over the most ridiculous thing. It's a girl thing.

Most of the animated films I watched, the emotions are all prepackaged like canned music, the hand actions, the sighs.

Music has always been such an amazing tool for me to access self and emotion.

Throughout the time in which I am working on a canvas I can feel how I am beginning to love it, with that love which is born of slow comprehension.

A lot of women don't know how to vent and deal with emotions.

I don't let anyone's insecurities, emotions, or opinions bother me. I know that if I am happy, that's all that matters to me.

I know there's a lot of emotion going into a fight, but everything in a fight - none of it comes out of an evil heart.

Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.

I try not to think too much about where my voice comes from. I'm channeling characters and emotion to come up with beautiful words that tell a story.

Emotion is something that you don't simply receive. Emotion is compelled. Other than that, we're just shells until we're possessed or reanimated from time to time by different emotions.

Anger has a way of seeping into every other emotion and planting itself in there.

An emotion that lives with me is a sense of 'what might have been' had injuries not robbed me of my most lethal weapon - speed.

Could it think, the heart would stop beating.

We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art

It's a completely useless emotion - jealousy. I don't go there.

Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper.

When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.

There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

For me, the bulimia was about stuffing my emotions. So I stopped suppressing my feelings.

Every song is something that I've been through or an emotion I've felt - like falling in love or heartbreak.

I've done a lot of action movies, and there has to be a certain amount of emotion in the actual performing of the stunt. It doesn't have to be any particular emotion, but there has to be some life to it, and that's not so easy.

I think any time anybody sees the bad guy show emotion and you're not hitting the audience over the head, there's always a tinge of empathy for that individual.

Hebrew is my first language, so it's really the most personal and the most simple. When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.

I dread naming pieces of music because being instrumental, most of the time the songs that I write are instrumental, I want the listener to make up their own story as to what it is and get the emotion pure without using logic.

The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy.

Romance focuses on emotions and on relationships, both of which are fundamentally important to women.

You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied.

Your memories from your early childhood seem to have such purchase on your emotions. They are so concrete.

I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.

Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.

You get addicted to emotions. Our endorphins kick in and it's like a high. On the low end you might love roller coasters. On the high end you might be a bank robber or something.

Markets as well as mobs respond to human emotions; markets as well as mobs can be inflamed to their own destruction.

People love to see reactions, they love to see emotions that come about.

Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.

The voice has to be very clear at all times in order to convey the emotion

I don't want to make any general statements, but I feel like so many stories that are presented as being about humanity and human emotion are just so convoluted and overly dramatic and focus on these certain little things that are supposedly meaningful, but just don't really mean anything.

Prudence is what makes someone a great commodities trader - the capacity to face reality squarely in the eye without allowing emotion or ego to get in the way. It's what is needed by every quarterback or battlefield general.

If anything, the overriding emotion is gonna just be excitement.

Perhaps writers should never be allowed to get together in a workplace context. It's not like studying computer science, after all. The emotions are at large, and are shared and are questioned. There is a vulnerability.

I don't shop. I buy things that inspire me, that give me emotion.

The reason I write is that I'm not in dialogue with my emotions; writing puts me in touch with myself.

At the end of the day you have to keep emotions away.

There are unwanted emotions and pain that goes along with any birth.

Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.

The thing about kids is that they express emotion. They don't hold back. If they want to cry, they cry, and if they are in a good mood, they're in a good mood.

I feel like I'm able to relate to all races of people because when you learn to tap into the raw emotion of a person, that goes past color.

Every role varies greatly, just as emotions vary greatly.

I listen to music for emotion and I get zero emotion from rap.

A person carries off the hat. Hats are about emotion. It is all about how it makes you feel.

When I repress my emotion my stomach keeps score.